¹²But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption:

¹³Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you:

¹⁴Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls: having their heart exercised with covetousness: children of malediction.

¹⁵Leaving the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor who loved the wages of iniquity,

¹⁶But had a check of his madness, the dumb beast used to the yoke, which, speaking with man’s voice, forbade the folly of the prophet.

¹⁷These are fountains without water and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.

¹⁸For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:

Read in Logos

Public Domain